| Show HORSES LIKE APPLAUSE Wont Hun Well Unless 3 Great Tumult Is LTade at the Kace Track Human beings are like horses in 1 great many ways said a New Orleans turfman thcOlhci nlghf as he listened to the singing of the French opera com han Now theres 3 bunch of singer who are ding their very best For the last two 01 three weeks they sang simply sim-ply because they had to That was before be-fore the allendaiice grew to Its pre ent proportions Now It Is different Here Is a big r crowd lots of music and noise and upplaUso aid just see the way they are throwing themselves I I Whats that got to do with the horse 1 was asked Tust this said the tUrfman A horse like those performers does far better when he sees a large crowd has his colors up and hears the band playIng play-Ing and the crowd Shouting Of course there are Home horses which run bet tdr when they are alone and when no one Is watching They are called morning glories and are detested by every trackman But there are singers sing-ers thkt occupy the same sphere Everyone Every-one has met the person who when alone In the parlor can raise tho roof but who Is as useless as an exploded firecracker fire-cracker when before a crowd Yes singers and horses like ap plauee There must be action In front of them to make them perform IJ They are slmlal rln many ways Tho star soprano and the stake mare both fret at the post and often skittish They are hard lo t manage and though you may not believe It both need stimulants at times Of course the theatrical favorite fa-vorite does not fall to go through as often as the turf favorite but there Is not the betting Inducement Inrac Ing money may be made by pulling l favorite hut such a course In stage land would mean a loss all around There Js no book made on Sembrlch Calve SchumannIIelnck or Eames iA hubbub enlivens things both on the stage and on the turf The artists up there behind the footlights are doing do-Ing their best because they hear tumultuous tu-multuous applause Theres Jerome the tenor He reminds me of Monk Wayman What 1 said the listener l lust what I said continued tho turfman < Horomlnds me of Monk Wayman n Dtfypu remember that horse uA few years ago he could not un track himself over the New Orleans course He was I mut tram Mutts vllle He could not win the price of 0 blanket for himself until one day n darky cleanlnff out 0 tin boiler frightened him and he tore off three quaitcrK In five eighths He went Ilka D runaway gravel train on a downgrade down-grade Well that gave the trainer an Idea l and when ho started him n couple cou-ple of days afterward he stationed < lot of stable boys on different parts ot the track up the back stretch They all had fog horns and tin pans As the horses swung round the turn Monk was away behind But then the chl arl l commenced and the way He cut loose was f caution lie simply mowed Vlown his field and won by a block Furtherirtonj he captured three of four races afterward simply because that noise trick was worked on him He performed hlu best Just as Jerome Is doing tonight when he hears the stamping feet and clapping hands Say did you stand for the hotair about Mont Wayman asked nil ex jockey who had overheard the talk That was the biggest bluff that was ever worked In Now OrleanH When that skate was figured out to bo of no account hit managcrB happily thoiight o the tin pan nicer and filled him up with dope I was even said the hypo made him run and that his owners got away with it 1 Monk blew up afterward That hullabaloo scheme dont go for mine I bet on the Texas horse robe Paine one day up In Toronto The men who owned him told me he WW in good shape but that he had been frightened and was troubled by ghosts Well he was leading around toHeo ond turn when somebody who had a horse In the race which was lagging behind yelled to the boy to como on and waved a towel That was a cuso where nolee cost me 800 bucks for Tobe Paine sidestepped away from the towel and the shouting Jumped the fence and landed In Lake Ontario Will that hold OuDnUY America |
